RECENT NEWS
Maps of Marcellus & Utica
Ohio.com has maps of the Utica and Marcellus shale plays. You can type in your address and see drill sites near you. Not only does this site have the fracking maps, but it also contains the injection well maps. Injection wells are typically old vertical oil and gas...
Ohio Sierra Club: Useful Data
The Ohio Sierra Club has created an interactive online map. It displays all Water Sentinel sample data collected thus far. You can click on a point to display information about a sample or sort by conductivity level. View it here. The Ohio Sierra Club has also put...
Shale Well Drilling & Permitting
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources has a page with spreadsheets that are posted weekly containing data about the number of permits and locations of the permits in Ohio's Marcellus and Utica shale plays. You can view the data here.
Oil and Gas Well Search
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources has a well search tool that is open to the public. The website is widely criticized because it is difficult to use. Once you get the hang of it you can determine when a well is permitted for drilling and where. The website...
Better Vision
A Better Vision for the Valley was an inspirational conference organized by FreshWater Accountability Project and attended by many residents from the Ohio Valley, as well as representatives from numerous environmental groups.
Fracking Violates Human Rights
FWAP provides testimony to the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal, a respected international human-rights court, the Rome-based Tribunal, began a week-long hearing on the impacts of fracking and climate change on human and Earth rights.
Letter to Gov. DeWine
Click here to view the letter we sent to Governor DeWine to cease permitting until regulatory deficiencies are reviewed. You may use our letter as reference when writing to your elected officials to express your concerns.
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